Growth of a Nation
- This 10 minute presentation of the growth of our nation from 1789 to 1959. Click on a decade number at the bottom to see an expanded timeline of that decade. This is a fantastic overview.

AFRICA: One Continent. Many Worlds - designed to provide an educator
with the knowledge and tools to bring a rich experience to the classroom. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]

African Flags - posted by the university of Pennsylvania African Studies
department

Africans
In America presented by PBS - America's journey through slavery is
presented in four parts. For each era, you'll find a historical Narrative,
a Resource Bank of images, documents, stories, biographies, and commentaries,
and a Teacher's Guide for using the content of the Web site and television
series in US history courses.

Marian Anderson: A Life in Song - This exhibition celebrates the artistic
development and musical career of Marian Anderson. Renowned throughout the
world for her extraordinary contralto voice, she is also remembered for
her dignity and grace under pressure.

100 milestone documents of American history - These documents help
us think, talk and teach about the rights and responsibilities of citizens
in our democracy, and reflect our diversity and our unity, our past and
our future.

The Decades - Presents a series of web guides on the decades of the
twentieth century. [This expired link is available through the Wayback
Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click
on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]

Editorial Cartoons - Use this outline to analyze editorial cartoons. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]

Economics of the Great Depression - Where did all the money go? As
detectives, you will gather clues using the Internet to investigate the
mystery through a series of clue sheets. An interactive lesson with an interactive
group project as culmination.

Famous
Moments In Early American History ( Short Films of Noteworthy Events)
- films highlighting a true story of historical significance, providing
'students' of early America with a better understanding of the people, places
and events of this important era.

Our Documents - Explore 100 milestone documents of American history.
These documents reflect our diversity and our unity, our past and our future,
and mostly our commitment as a nation to continue to strive to "form a more
perfect union."

Presidential
timeline - Interactive timeline of the 20th century presidents. "an
ever-growing selection of digitized assets from the collections of the twelve
Presidential Libraries of the National Archives. Among these assets you'll
find documents, photographs, audio recordings, and video relating to the
events of the presidents' lives. The goal of the project is to make these
resources readily and freely available to students, educators, and adult
learners throughout the world."

Presidents Puzzle - Drag the Presidents into the proper order and
press the Check button. This site requires Flash, but it is well worth
the download time if you don't yet have it installed. This would be
an excellent review.

American Treasures of the Library of Congress - Thomas Jefferson,
whose personal library became the core of the Library of Congress, arranged
his books into three types of knowledge, corresponding to three faculties
of the mind: Memory (History), Reason (Philosophy), and Imagination
(Fine Arts).

The Civil
War - The Valley of the Shadow - The Valley of the Shadow Project
takes two communities, one Northern and one Southern, through the experience
of the American Civil War. The project is a hypermedia archive of thousands
of sources for the period before, during, and after the Civil War. [unavailable
on 6/11/2010]

Teaching with Documents - reproducible copies of primary documents
from the holdings of the National Archives of the United States, teaching
activities correlated to the National History Standards and National
Standards for Civics and Government, and cross-curricular connections

Document Analysis Worksheets - designed and developed by the
Education Staff of the National Archives and Records Administration
to help your students evaluate a variety of types of primary documents

Revolutionary War - Definitions of the Revolutionary War [This
expired link is available through the Wayback Machine
Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient?
at the bottom right of the page.]

Revolutionary War - Many links from the pre- war years to the war;
primary sources and more [This expired link is available through the
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Women in the Revolution - scroll past the ads at the top to the
bottom of the page for a list of women [This expired link is available
through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive.
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Women in the Revolution - Learn how women helped in the war [This
expired link is available through the Wayback Machine
Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient?
at the bottom right of the page.]

Talking History
- Talking History, based at the University at Albany, State University
of New York, is a radio and aural history production, distribution, and
instructional center. An outstanding collection of audio documentaries,
speeches, debates, oral histories, conference sessions, commentaries, archival
audio sources, and other aural history resources.

Tennessee History

Tennessee Blue Book - graphs and charts on State Government; contains
information on the makeup of Tennessee state government. It also contains
an expansive history section, the constitutions of the United States
and Tennessee, the state's symbols and honors, the most recent election
returns, and census information.

Tennessee History - lots of links ( 12 pages
if printed ) [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]

Tennessee History Classroom - three pages of links to Tennessee
history resources [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]

Then and Now - A Science Odyssey takes you on a journey through the most
spectacular 100 years in the history of science and technology. Here's an
overview of how our understanding has grown from 1900 to today. Click each
topic for greater detail and links that trace our journey from then to now!

The Twentieth Century - See what happened many years ago. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]

The Valley
of the Shadow Project takes two communities, one Northern and one Southern,
through the experience of the American Civil War. The project is a hypermedia
archive of thousands of sources for the period before, during, and after
the Civil War for Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania

Yesterday Toys - See what American children played with throughout
the decades. [This expired link is available through the Wayback
Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click
on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]

You
Be the Historian - See if you can figure out what life was like 200
years ago for Thomas and Elizabeth Springer's family in New Castle, Delaware.
At the same time discover what historians in the next century could learn
about you if they found your house exactly the way it is today.

Jewish
History

Anne Frank and children of the Holocaust - Webquest [This expired link
is available through the Wayback Machine Internet
Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient?
at the bottom right of the page.]

Israeli History - posted by the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
This site contains a large number of links to sites related to Jewish history
and links to source documents that would provide material for project-based
activities in the classroom.

The Jewish Nature Quiz will test your knowledge of Judaism and awareness
of nature. Every month, you can find another nature riddle, mystery or Torah
question. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]

Survivors
of the Shoah - established in 1994 to collect and preserve the testimonies
of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses

United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum - List of topics related to the Holocaust. Strong Caution:
Before using this with any age class, preview thoroughly. Be sure you know
what educational objectives you plan to accomplish. There is some really
rough stuff here.

Egypt - Color
Me Egypt - "Learn about Egypt's ancient past, as well as some of the
most important rulers and other people that made Egypt one of the world's
most powerful countries thousands of years ago."

Egypt - Links to many resources [This expired link is available through
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Hard Times - Students interact with the different effects of the Industrial
Revolution while classifying them as to the historical theme for which they
are best suited. They are also asked to make a judgment as to whether the
effects are positive or negative.

History Journals On-Line - a compilation of links posted by Tennessee
Tech [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]

Medieval Siege - In the Middle Ages, those who attacked castles
used trebuchets, military engines capable of firing missiles with frightening
force. At this NOVA web site, view an actual trebuchet and construct
and fire one of your own online. Also, find out what other weapons were
used and what daily life was like in a medieval castle.

The
Middle Ages - A part of the Annenberg/CPB Projects Exhibits Collection.
Categories include; Feudal Life, Religion, Homes, Clothing, Health,
Arts&Entertainment, and Town Life

Odyssey Online - "an interactive journey through ancient Egypt, Greece,
Rome, and the Near East; the ancient Americas; and sub-Saharan Africa of
the 19th and 20th centuries"

The
Face of Russia traces the general chronology of Russian culture. This
remarkable journey through ten centuries of art, architecture, music, dance
and cinema reveals the major events that shaped Russian culture. An excellent
time line is provided.

Life in Ancient Egypt - an introduction to The Walton Hall of Ancient
Egypt at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. [This expired link is available
through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive.
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Life in the Middle Ages - step back in time to the days of imposing
castles high on the bluffs, knights in armor defending the kingdom, and
noblemen ruling over the serfs - life in the Middle Ages [This expired link
is available through the Wayback Machine Internet
Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient?
at the bottom right of the page.]

Military History
Encyclopedia on the Web - At the moment, their main strengths are the
middle ages, the First World War, the Seven Years War and the Thirty Years
War, but they are expanding their coverage every week, especially in the
Napoleonic Wars and the Crimean War.

Modern World History - Textbook resources from the Class Zone are provided
by the McDougal Littel division of the Houghton Mifflin Company. Each chapter
provides links related to the chapter content, a chapter assessment Internet
activity, and a short online quiz.

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World - [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]

an Egyptian Mummy! - You are a wealthy ancient Egyptian on the
point of death and you want to make yourself immortal. To achieve this,
you will have to go through the expensive and complicated process of
becoming a mummy. Get ready, as you are about to...drop dead.

a Polar Explorer! - Get ready...as a brave young sailor looking
for adventure, you are about to join Ernest Shackleton's expedition
to icy Antarctica as a polar explorer.

a Roman Gladiator! - Will you live or die after your first fight
as a Roman gladiator? Find out what fate awaits you on your journey
to the arena

on the Whaling Ship Essex - As a 14-year old cabin boy, you are
about to begin your first voyage aboard the whaling ship Essex. What
you don't know is that the ship is heading for a disastrous encounter
with a giant sperm whale.

World
War II Commemoration from Grolier Online
- World War II ended on September
2, 1945 with the formal surrender of Japan aboard the US battleship Missouri in
Tokyo Bay. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of the war, Grolier
has put together what they believe to be the definitive collection of World War
II historical materials on the Web.
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World
War II Poster Collection
- The Government Publications Department at
Northwestern University Library has a comprehensive collection of over 300 posters
issued by US Federal agencies from the onset of war through 1945.

World
War II Remembered
- investigate World War II by learning about events through
the stories of people who experienced them firsthand. Eyewitness accounts unfold
around four significant wartime events: the story of Nazi Germany and Anne Frank,
the attack on Pearl Harbor, life in America during wartime, and the atomic bombing
of Hiroshima, Japan